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Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

Aug 20, 2011
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With LinuxCon this past week, we’ve got a special edition of great quotes from the event.

 

“Where will Linux be in 20 years? I have no idea.”

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat in a keynote presentation about where Linux heading. (Datamation)

 

“We need to make sure that the doors we open, others do not close.”

Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus talking about the need of opennes in the cloud. (InternetNews).

 

“I think that virtualization is evil.”

Linus Torvalds talking about his love or real hardware (Datamation)

 

“Application Developers are weanies”

Linus Torvalds explaining why Linux kernel developers are more manly than those that work on application development

 

“We just don’t seem to get the credit we deserve.”

Alan Clark, Board Chair of the openSUSE Project, commenting on what he sees as the challenges facing SUSE Linux. (ServerWatch)

 

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.

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